Associate Director, US Launch Excellence

Global Commercial & Launch Excellence - Immunology and IBD Launches

Help launch teams turn strategy into coordinated action, stronger decisions and sustained readiness.

• Lead integrated launch planning and readiness
• Partner with marketing and launch leaders to translate brand, customer and go-to-market strategy into integrated, adaptable launch plans with clear outcomes, milestones, dependencies and ownership.
• Orchestrate readiness across core and extended launch work streams, connecting functional plans and maintaining a clear view of the critical path rather than managing activities in isolation.
• Create transparent ways to assess readiness, surface gaps and support decisions through launch plans, readiness indicators, dashboards and key performance indicators.
• Support pre-launch measurement, launch monitoring and post-launch hypercare so teams can learn quickly and adjust when needed.
• Anticipate risk and strengthen decisions
• Identify and challenge launch-critical risks, assumptions and interdependencies early; facilitate mitigation, trade-off and escalation discussions before issues affect readiness.
• Lead scenario planning and prioritization to help teams focus attention and resources on the work most important to launch success.
• Bring an outside-in and enterprise perspective, applying launch excellence practices while tailoring the approach to the asset, market and IBD customer ecosystem.
• Operate as a strategic launch partner
• Serve as a trusted thought partner and launch excellence subject matter expert who asks the right questions, challenges constructively and engages the right functional expertise.
• Design and facilitate core and extended launch team meetings and other readiness forums that drive alignment, decisions, accountability and follow-through.
• Build strong partnerships across Marketing, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Patient Support, Data & Analytics, Digital, Field and Learning & Development, as well as Global teams and Centers of Excellence.
• Clarify Global-to-US inputs, ownership and handoffs so US teams can build on enterprise work, address market-specific needs and avoid unnecessary duplication.
• Advance launch excellence capabilities
• Capture and apply launch learnings, reusable practices and knowledge to strengthen future Immunology and US Human Health launches.
• Improve launch ways of working across people, process and technology, including responsible use of digital and AI-enabled capabilities within company policies.
• Help evolve the launch partner model beyond program coordination toward strategic partnership that improves integration, decision quality and execution.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, General Management, Biotechnology or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology or life sciences consulting industry, including experience in marketing, sales, strategy and planning, commercial operations or related launch work.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into executable plans and lead complex, cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization.
• Strong program and project management capabilities, including managing multiple priorities, milestones, risks and interdependencies.
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority, build commitment and create accountability across functions and organizational levels.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation and presentation skills, with the ability to simplify complexity and communicate clearly with senior stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel as needed and meet the on-site expectations defined for the approved role and location.

• Experience leading or materially supporting a new branded product, indication or commercial program launch in the pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical industry.
• Immunology, gastroenterology or IBD experience, including familiarity with complex patient, provider, access and account pathways.
• Experience across integrated go-to-market planning, patient support, market access, field readiness, customer experience or launch measurement.
• Demonstrated use of data and insights to inform priorities, readiness decisions, KPIs and performance optimization.
• Experience with scenario planning, Agile ways of working, launch governance, knowledge management or post-launch hypercare.
• Experience working across Global and market teams or in an alliance environment.

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